“I appreciate (yoga) as appropriate physical exercise to help prayer and for good health”

But before that, an excerpt from one of my earlier reports:

In November 2013, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, invites Prakash Lasrado(see pages 6, 7) over to meet with him. (Why doesn’t he ask ME to meet him when I am exposing so much of New Age and other error in his Archdiocese and in the Indian Church, I wonder?) Whatever did he invite the yoga-promoting Lasrado for? Does it mean that the Cardinal values and appreciate his nonsensical diarrhoea of pro-New Age emails every day, or his pro-yoga advocacy? Or his attacks on the articles on Fr. Conrad Saldanha’s blog and my web site? Did he think that he could use Prakash Lasrado to “harass” us even more than he is presently attempting to do?

The invitation from the Cardinal to Lasrado came almost immediately after Lasrado’s opening salvo on Fr. Saldanha. Since the Archdiocese has been victimizing Fr. Saldanha for several years now and has been unsuccessful in silencing his exposes of New Age and other error among the Church hierarchy, did they hope to use Lasrado as a tool to further their ends?

If so, they tried to team up with the wrong individual as my recent reports on Lasrado have shown, e.g.:

PRAKASH LASRADO RECOMMENDS TO INDIAN BISHOPS THE NEW AGE YOGIC MEDITATION OF A FAKE BISHOP WHO GATECRASHED A VATICAN CONCLAVE AND PROMOTES SEX TOYS

Moreover, the Cardinal misjudged Prakash Lasrado. The only thing that he has going for him in his nefarious activities is his anonymity, and he has shown the Cardinal that that is something he’s never going to give up:

Dear Mr. Prakash,His Eminence Oswald Cardinal Gracias would like to meet you on 4 November 2013 at 5 pm at Archbishop’s House in connection with the issues you have been raising.With every good wishes,Fr. Emmanuel K.T.Secretary to the Archbishop

Please do NOT take punitive action against anybody, only corrective action.

I feel Fr. Conrad Saldanha is theologically weak and must read CCC and Vatican encyclicals thoroughly before writing on blogs. […]

All issues will be raised by me via email with cc to all as and when they arise.

Prakash Lasrado

(Lasrado ensured that this particular correspondence was NOT COPIED TO ME but it was supplied to me by another recipient)

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All of the information following is provided by Prakash Lasrado.

Every email of his is copied in CC to about 50 clerics and lay persons.

Lasrado continues to refer to the Cardinal’s November 2013 (above) invitation which he spurned.

Below are only a few of his most recent emails to the Cardinal. In several other emails (that I have deleted from my mail box) he has given evidence of the financial transparency of Hindu temples, their boards and trusts, and challenged the Cardinal to emulate them. The Cardinal evades that particular issue but responds to Lasrado twice in the space of a week on other matters:

Subject: Re: Are Indian clergy the Judas Iscariots of today?

Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 16:12:20

Long back Cardinal Gracias invited me for personal talks.

Even if he had paid me to and fro flight charges+5 star hotel accommodation + taxi fare I would not have met him.

When an issue can be solved with proofs over email with cc to all at a cheap price and efficiently, why meet in person and waste time, money and resources?

Verbal discussions are useless as no proofs can be supplied to solidify your position and they are expensive both in terms of time and money.

Email communication is the best as everybody knows what I am trying to convey with supporting proofs.

There is nothing confidential about what I say. What I say is for the good of the church in general.

If clergy is wrong, I will criticize the clergy. If laity is wrong, I will criticize the laity.

Prakash Lasrado

Subject: Re: Dissident priests must not be bullied, ragged, humiliated into submission

Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 08:37:26 +0530

May 4, 2016

Dear Mr. Lasrado,

I have your email of April 30, 2016*. I would like not like to show intolerance for theological dissent but on the other hand, there is also respectful obedience to the head of the Church. We have always got to try and take the path that is best for the good of the whole Church. I have personally experienced how the Holy Spirit always guides the Church.

The comments in your email have been balanced. I would agree with you.

With kind regards and best wishes,

Yours sincerely in Christ,

+Oswald Cardinal Gracias

Archbishop of Bombay

*That particular email of April 30 has been deleted from my mail box.

Subject: Re: Dissident priests must not be bullied, ragged, humiliated into submission

Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 16:27:43 +0530

Rev. Cardinal Gracias,

Next time when you call somebody to meet you personally for talks,

1. Do not fix meeting time unilaterally as it is bad manners. Discuss with the potential attendee the convenient meeting time.

2. Give your skype id for a video call and your telephone no. for audio call since the attendee may not be able to meet you face to face.

Skype video call or telephone calls are less expensive than meeting face to face.

I would not have talked to you over skype or telephone, but only via email since I find email to be convenient for security reasons.

If a rogue gets hold of my private telephone no. or skype id, it can be a potential nuisance for me in the future. Fortunately modern technology enables one to block rogue telephone calls and rogue skype ids.

Prakash Lasrado

May 10, 2016

Dear Mr. Lasrado,

This has reference to your email of May 1, 2016 which I have just seen. I would not compel any priest to accept yoga. I appreciate it myself as appropriate physical exercise to help prayer and for good health.

Regarding your invitation for talks, even if you had given me business class flight tickets + 5 star hotel accommodation + limousine taxi service to meet you, I would not have met you. I knew the outcome of the meeting would be a big zero anda waste of time, resources and money.

If you cannot reply by 20th May 2016 regarding fiscal transparency, I would realize how incompetent you are as an administrator**.

Prakash Lasrado

**Prakash Lasrado’s 20th of May deadline has come and gone…

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Meanwhile, as a follow-up to his futile letters to the Bishop of Poona, Thomas Dabre, another Catholic lay man, Eugene Pinto, has written two letters to Cardinal Oswald Gracias on the very important subject of Catholics’ desiring to have a Latin Mass said in the Diocese of Poona.

Both letters have gone unanswered by the Cardinal (as well as by the President of the CBCI [Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India] Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum):

I had forwarded you a letter addressed to Rev. Bishop Dabre, Bishop of Pune on May 13th* in the hopes that I would elicit a response from you in the grave matters that I had put forth. To my surprise, you have not chosen to respond. To refresh your memory I quote from my email… *The date should read as May 11th (see emails on following page) as informed by Eugene Pinto

“3. One of the conditions for a valid Catholic Mass is

4.2 Condition Two – Intent of the Priest

The priest must have the intent of doing what the Church does, that being the intent to make Jesus physically present via the miracle of transubstantiation at the consecration. The Council of Trent – a dogmatic council in response to the Protestant heresy – declared against the Protestant view which denies the necessity of the intention of the minister. St. Thomas Aquinas also covers this requirement in Summa Theologica (Third Part, Question 64, Articles 8, 9, 10).

Council of Trent, Seventh Session, March 3, 1547; Canon 11: “If anyone says that in ministers, when they effect andconfer the sacraments, there is not required at least the intention of doing what the Church does, [Eugene IV in the decr. cited.] let him be anathema.”

While the intent of the priest may be difficult to ascertain with some degree of certainty, I would like to point to the demeanor of the priest while offering the Mass. There are some priests who routinely do not bow before the tabernacle when taking out the Ciborium with the consecrated hosts. As Catholics we believe that Jesus is present Body, Soul and Divinity in the Consecrated Hosts. If a priest were to do the absolute minimum with regard to reverence to the consecrated species, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say then he wouldn’t also believe that by the words he speaks at the consecration results in the host being transubstantiated into the Body of Christ.”

By virtue of your position, you are required to defend the doctrine of the church and state explicitly, why the claim that I have made above is not true. However, by not responding to the email which I sent you, you have tacitly agreed to the matter that some/most of the masses being said are invalid. Hence there are tabernacles which no longer contain “The Body of Christ”. It has always been the intention of the Catholic Church to provide the “Body of Christ” to the faithful to fulfil the words of Jesus in John 6: 53-54 [54] Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. [55] He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.

As I stated in my earlier email, one of the ways this can be rectified is by offering the Latin Tridentine Mass on a wider basis. There are other issues that also need to be addressed, all of which I would rather discuss in person.

I expect a response to this email within 3 days failing which, I will publish this together with the previous missive on the subject on the internet. I would rather not see that happen, but I will do what I must in the interest of the souls that would be otherwise lost.

A few months ago, I had requested you to have the Latin Tridentine Mass be offered in Pune on a regular basis. Since I had posted this message on Facebook, you publicly agreed but when I called you to schedule the Mass, you told me that you would like to have the names of at least 50 people who would be attending. Given the fact that most Catholics in India are unfamiliar with the Tridentine Mass, of course it was very difficult for me to come up with the number of people you wanted.

This has not prevented me from attending the Latin Tridentine Mass in Mumbai where it is offered every week in the SSPX chapel in Malad and I can testify to the fullness of graces that are available in this form of the Mass. I have also taken people along with me to attend this mass and every one of them has agreed that the Liturgy is more reverent than the Novus Ordo Missae that is currently being offered in all the parishes.

The Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, issued by Pope Benedict XVI, allows for this mass to be offered without any restriction when requested by the faithful.

I would like to state that it was rather disingenuous of you to put a condition of me getting 50 people with their names in order for the Tridentine Mass to be offered in Pune. It would seem that the growth in holiness and the salvation of your flock is definitely not a priority to you. How then would you explain the following?

1. The intention of the Church is to offer the highest form of worship and praise to God and for the laity to be part of this. How come that barring feast days there is no Solemn High Masses being said on Sundays in the Parishes in the diocese? Is it really that difficult for the Mass for the parishioners to be a high mass which includes a solemn entrance procession and the use of incense?

2. Is it really that difficult for a priest to prepare a homily for Sunday for the mass that he offers? How come in the Cathedral, one designated priest will give the homilies for ALL the masses on Sunday. Here is one of the quotes from a homily that I have heard “I cannot believe that a loving God will send ANYONE to hell”. Can this be consistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church, which also proclaims that God is just and the result of his justice is that unrepentant sinners, do go to hell? Why is it so rare to hear a sermon being preached on the four Last things DEATH, JUDGEMENT, HEAVEN and HELL?

3. One of the conditions for a valid Catholic Mass is

4.2 Condition Two – Intent of the Priest

The priest must have the intent of doing what the Church does, that being the intent to make Jesus physically present via the miracle of transubstantiation at the consecration. The Council of Trent – a dogmatic council in response to the Protestant heresy – declared against the Protestant view which denies the necessity of the intention of the minister. St. Thomas Aquinas also covers this requirement in Summa Theologica (Third Part, Question 64, Articles 8, 9, 10).

Council of Trent, Seventh Session, March 3, 1547; Canon 11: “If anyone says that in ministers, when they effect andconfer the sacraments, there is not required at least the intention of doing what the Church does, [Eugene IV in the decr. cited.] let him be anathema.”

While the intent of the priest may be difficult to ascertain with some degree of certainty, I would like to point to the demeanor of the priest while offering the Mass. There are some priests who routinely do not bow before the tabernacle when taking out the Ciborium with the consecrated hosts. As Catholics we believe that Jesus is present Body, Soul and Divinity in the Consecrated Hosts. If a priest were to do the absolute minimum with regard to reverence to the consecrated species, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say then he wouldn’t also believe that by the words he speaks at the consecration results in the host being transubstantiated into the Body of Christ.

I am therefore requesting you to have the Latin Tridentine Mass offered for the faithful on a regular basis in Pune. We could have the mass offered at either St. Xavier’ Church, or Immaculate Conception Church where altar rails are still available. Kindly have this information be widely disseminated so that more of the faithful can participate in this.

Thank you

Eugene Pinto

EUGENE PINTO’S EARLIER LETTERS TO THE ONE OF MAY 20, 2016:

To: Cardinal Oswald Gracias

Subject: Copy of Letter which I have sent to Bishop Dabre Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 16:25:31 +0530

Your Eminence,

It has been 10 days since I last wrote to Bishop Dabre about getting the Latin Tridentine mass started in Pune. (Copy follows). There exists latent interest in the Mass gauged from the reactions of the people I have taken for the same in Mumbai.

I am forwarding a copy of the letter I had sent to Bishop Thomas Dabre, for further action by you, since I have not received a response in 10 days.

Thanking you

Eugene Pinto

Cardinal Oswald Gracias is President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), Secretary General of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) and member, Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts.He is also a member of Pope Francis’ elite Group of Nine advisors.

He prays using yoga and endorses its promoters who are Catholic priests in Agra and Mumbai*.

Is it any wonder that he ignores lay persons’ requests to have the Mass of All Time said for them?

Over the last 3 or 4 days, Prakash Lasrado has been emailing me (and of course his CC list of around fifty bishops, priests and lay persons) several times a day.

The subject of his emails: “Defamatory comments about me on ephesians511blog.com.”

Lasrado is referring to the comments that I made about him on page 1 of my July 2013 report THE PRAKASH LASRADOS, THE JOHNSON SEQUEIRAS AND THE DOMINIC DIXONS. He of course cites the ephesians511 blog and not my web site URLs.

In that report, I said that he “remains anonymous to all the recipients of his emails“. I also stated, “He writes to me under several email aliases, two positively identified by me as him, and at least three others which I suspect are his,” to which he has objected.

About the blog. For the umpteenth time, it is not mine. I have a fan who created the blog and posts some of my output on it. The owner of the blog once informed me that he only posts on it a few of my reports. If that is the case, I doubt that even 25% of my output is on the said blog. If it were mine, it would be 100%, since I also write articles, and address liturgical, New Age issues, etc., reproduce Vatican documents and much more. But it is true that whatever is put on the blog (I viewed it only once since its inception) is authored by me.

Lasrado must also know that Michael Prabhu, whatever his other failings, does not lie. Ever.

Lasrado must accept the blog owner’s preference for anonymity just as he himself has remained anonymous since he first wrote to me in May 2013.

But Lasrado has suddenly decided that he will not remain a fully anonymous person. So he sends out images of his educational qualifications to certify that Prakash Lasrado is indeed a real person.

What does that prove? Only that there is a real person called Prakash Lasrado. Nothing more.

On “my” blog and at the top of every file on my web site is my masthead that gives my contact details.

What are Prakash Lasrado’s? None.

Every regular reader of my writings is aware of a few things about me: my integrity, that I will not refrain from exposing even a good friend who publicly puts the eternal salvation of souls in jeopardy, and that I keep meticulous records.

We have seen that he doesn’t want to accept Cardinal Oswald Gracias’ invitation to meet him. It is fairly certain that the Cardinal wanted to “use” Lasrado to further his own agenda in harassing a particular priest.

Lasrado was on the mailing list of Bombay advocates Joseph and Zezie Sodder of the Mumbai Laity blog and the Association of Concerned Catholics. When he began messing up their email exchanges with his customary intrusions, they sought his identity/contact information; he resisted for weeks until eventually he was obliged to withdraw from the list, completely alienated.

He cannot stand scrutiny and offers many excuses for hiding behind a cloak of anonymity.

That being the case, anything coming from his computer cannot be taken seriously.

I have copies of letters of a number of people who requested him to take them off his mailing list.

The same was the case with Fr. Adrian Mascarenhas (see FR ADRIAN MASCARENHAS AND PRAKASH LASRADO YOGA ADVOCATES’ SHORT-LIVED HONEYMOON). He did not let go easily there too.

I do not think that anyone would be interested in my reproducing all the correspondence evidence that is in my file on him as also in this issue which I have intentionally relegated to the very end of this present file.

Concerning his denial of having written under different aliases; it might be the truth.

But the fact remains that all those aliases stopped writing together almost simultaneously.

The style of frequent and regular writers carries a signature. For instance, if I attempted to write under an alias, it would soon be evident that the writer was me.

The emails of the anonymous (alias) authors bore the clear imprint of the emails carrying Lasrado’s signature.

I have several of them in my file on this man. If they were not his, someone was surely imitating him.

Now that he has furnished his engineering certificates and the national rankings of the institutions, Prakash Lasrado has been demanding (since a long time) that I reveal the name of the college in which I did my engineering degree. He is bothered because I said on my “about” page that it is a “premier” institution of Madras (Chennai). When I studied at the University of Madras from 1966 to 1971, unlike today when there are dozens, as well as hundreds more nation-wide, there were just three engineering colleges in the city. So it was very much more difficult to get an engineering seat then than it was when Lasrado studied twenty years later… and even more so today. When I wrote that “about” page in 2003, the intention to glorify myself was farthest from my mind. I did not think that a Prakash Lasrado would, 10 years later, take issue with that and describe it as “bragging”.

Finally, in the report that Prakash Lasrado takes exception to, I have not categorically said that Prakash Lasrado is not his real name. My exact words are these: “The name that he most commonly uses to write to cardinals and bishops is apparently not even his real name“. Apparently.

Well, like I do on my masthead to prove that I am a real person, Lasrado has now proved, through his certificates, that he is a real person. But he is still an anonymous entity.

PRAKASH LASRADO

(Prakash Lasrado figures in at least 30 of this ministry’s reports)

THE PRAKASH LASRADOS, THE JOHNSON SEQUEIRAS AND THE DOMINIC DIXONS28 JULY 2013